you’ve got to expect a little attitude,”
she said. “I think what bothers me
more is the adults that you would
think know better.”
She tries to respect every person
she deals with, from friendly
neighbors to traffic stops, but her
kindness isn’t always returned.
Field loves her career in the
law enforcement world, but on the
chance that the field hadn’t worked
out, she also considered nursing,
something she said she still may do,
some day.
“I’ve thought about doing this
when I retire, of course I’ll be
much older, but I’ve given serious
thought into going back to school for
nursing,” she said.
When Field retires from law
enforcement (she will be eligible to
fully retire in five years), she said she
would still be too young not to work
anyway.
Working as a real life law
enforcement hero, it would be
understandable that she would want
a break while at home, steering clear
of the crime shows. However, Wendy
admits that she can’t stay away from
them all. She favors one in particular.
“The only one I really watch that’s
kind of a guilty pleasure is Law and
Order SVU (Special Victims Unit),”
she said. “I love Mariska Hargitay.
She’s gorgeous. I did get into True
Detective, that was pretty good, but
of course, who can turn away from
Matthew McConaughey?” she joked.
Aside from catching up on her
guilty pleasure occasionally, in her
free time Field also likes to run.
“I’m really big into fitness, I run a
lot, I go to the gym, I ride a bike. It’s
a therapy for me, there will be things
I have on my mind and sometimes
I’ll run and I won’t even remember
where I’ve been because I’m thinking
through things,” she said.
Overall, Field said she wouldn’t
trade her career for anything. Her
advice to future law enforcement
officers, or just anyone considering
the career field is simple: stay in
school.
“Part of the reason I went back,
I wanted to teach my kids to finish
what they started. If it’s their passion,
stay in school, it’s only going to help
them. It’s never too late.”
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but we all get stereotyped as bad.
When you go out and hear parents
tell their children negative things, all
it does is make the kids scared. When
they say, ‘If you don’t behave, I’m
going to have this officer arrest you,’
that’s awful. If they’re somewhere and
there’s an emergency and they need
help, they’re not gonna come up to a
police officer because all they know
is they put people in jail.”
Things aren’t all bad though,
she said, noting officers have also
received a lot of support from the
county.
“We’ve got people bringing us
food and we’ve had kiddos come in
and bring us posters,” she said.
Another thing she’s noticed is
kids sprinting up to her while she’s in
uniform saying, “We back the blue,”
before proceeding to give her a high
five.
It’s no secret law enforcement is
dangerous, but some things are worse
than getting injured on the job, she
said, recalling a case she worked
involving a shaken baby.
“He was two months old; that
was a really tough case. He was a
perfectly normal child, and now he’s
not and he never will be again,” she
said. “The damage was so extensive
that they didn’t think he was going
to survive. It was really hard to know
that he never had a chance to be
something great. He could have
been the person God put on this
earth to find the cure for cancer, and
because somebody made the decision
that they did, he’ll never get to do
anything like that.”
Visiting the infant in the hospital
was most difficult because of all
the tubes and wires attached to his
small frame. Even worse, she was
responsible for taking the child’s
photo.
“In order to make a good case we
had to take his photograph, and I just
felt like I was exploiting him, I felt
terrible.”
Now as a mother of two children,
a daughter Alex, 16, and younger
son Nate, 12, the case especially hits
home for her, she said.
Asked if there was anything she
would change, Wendy said, “Not
to condone anything they do, but
teenagers will be teenagers, and
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